The Sisters Brothers

The Sisters Brothers

Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, The Sisters Brothers is a darkly humorous and visually arresting Western that reimagines the myths of greed, loyalty, and redemption on the American frontier. Directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Jacques Audiard in his English-language debut, the film offers a gritty yet deeply human take on the genre.

Set in 1851, the story follows hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters (John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix), brothers whose violent profession begins to weigh on them as they pursue a prospector (Riz Ahmed) with a revolutionary formula that could change their world. As their journey unfolds, what begins as a ruthless manhunt transforms into a soulful exploration of brotherhood, morality, and the pursuit of peace in a brutal age.

With stunning cinematography by Benoît Debie and a haunting score by Alexandre Desplat, Audiard infuses the Western landscape with melancholy and beauty, blending tension with unexpected tenderness.

The Sisters Brothers stands as both homage and reinvention—an introspective, elegiac Western that reveals the humanity buried beneath violence, and the quiet yearning for grace that endures even in the harshest of worlds.

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Shark

Student Shorts Showcase

Marty is a deadbeat loan shark, sick of his 9-5. So he decides to quit his job the only way he knows how, with a bullet & a pack of cigarettes.

8 mins
Canada, 2022
Dir. Curtis Carriere
Language: English